Comments on: Jeremy Lin and the Challenges Facing Asian American Athletes

By: Enough about LeBron, What’s happening with Jeremy Lin? « USC Student Coalition for Asian Pacific Empowerment

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:24:46 +0000

[...] many of you remember Jeremy got mad press from the APA blogosphere. After attending workouts with teams like the Memphis Grizzlies, Golden [...]

By: 8Asians.com » The Fittest kids in California: Asian-Americans?

8Asians.com » The Fittest kids in California: Asian-Americans? — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:37:51 +0000

[...] find it highly ironic that given stereotypes of Asian-American kids not being athletic, they are the fittest, and African-Americans, stereotyped to be athletes, are among the least [...]

By: 8Asians.com » Is Jeremy Lin finally getting more respect?

8Asians.com » Is Jeremy Lin finally getting more respect? — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:02:30 +0000

[...] the face of it, Jeremy Lin seems to be getting more respect and exposure. Time Magazine has an article on him called [...]

By: 8Asians.com » Silicon Valley’s Ping Pong Boom

8Asians.com » Silicon Valley’s Ping Pong Boom — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:01:52 +0000

[...] Asian American parents that their children would not excel at football or basketball — thankfully, Jeremy Lin is helping to break that stereotype — and that table tennis is a sport that their kids can be active in and overcome the [...]

By: hoopsmom

hoopsmom — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:21:31 +0000

What is really unfair is when my son is not even allowed to tryout because of his height! My son was an incoming freshmen and in the previous year, brought his school team to the championship and named MVP. During the summer he scored an average of 24 points against JV and Varsity non-asian AAU teams as an incoming Freshmen. Yet when he got to his high school tryouts, they would not even let him tryout due to his height. My son is 5'8″ and taller than some of the sophomores trying out. Right now he is on the Frosh team, but very frustrated playing with very inexperienced players.

By: 8Asians.com » Asian Kids in the Little League World Series

8Asians.com » Asian Kids in the Little League World Series — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:41:49 +0000

[...] unearned runs. The American team was characterized as being powerful, hitting many home runs. How stereotypical! Ironically, during the first part of the game, Taiwan was leading, scoring by hitting home runs. [...]

By: 8Asians.com » Kevin Wong: Professional Volleyball Player

8Asians.com » Kevin Wong: Professional Volleyball Player — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:18:16 +0000

[...] Wong is a 6-7 professional beach volleyball player (who says that Asians aren’t tall and aren’t athletic?), as is his brother Scott. Kevin went to Hawaii sports powerhouse Punahou [...]

By: 8Asians.com » Ninja Warrior

8Asians.com » Ninja Warrior — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:02:15 +0000

[...] stage. I was also surprised at the number of professional and high level Asian athletes; who says Asians aren’t athletic? A final surprise was how long the show has lasted — it’s gone on for 12 years, [...]